Quill pig is another name for a porcupine. Porcupines are unattractive and unpopular, but, as animals go, and unlike eagles, elephants, and donkeys, they are reasonably harmless good neighbors that mind their own business. Here's where we can talk about being good neighbors and why it's eternally important.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Why this anarchist thinks a vote for Ron Paul, no anarchist he, is a vote for positive good and not a vote for the lesser of two evils:

Barack Obama

Hillary Clinton

Newt Gingrich

Mitt Romney

Rick Santorum

Ron Paul

Is the Constitution such an arcane document that only an elite cadre can be trusted to interpret it?

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Is the Constitution obsolete?

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Is the US government entitled to summarily kill or incarcerate anyone it deems a threat to its purposes?

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Does the need for safety from terrorists trump the "unalienable rights" spoken of by the Declaration of Independence, or constitutional rights?

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Are US citizens somehow "exceptional," better than people from other countries?

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Should the federal government determine what you can and cannot put in your body?

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Should the federal government determine what you can and cannot do in your bedroom?

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Should the federal government determine what you can and cannot do in your bathroom?

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Should the federal government determine how your children are educated?

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Should the federal government determine what you can and cannot post or read on the Internet?

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Should the federal government determine what you can and cannot pass on to your survivors when you die?

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Should the federal government determine whether abortion is legal or illegal in a given state?

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Should the federal government determine whom you hire or work for, or the terms of such employment?

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Should the federal government determine what businesses will survive and which will fold?

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Does what you receive in exchange for your labor belong first to the government and then, only after it takes what it wants, to you?

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Can the US military be trusted always to do what is right?

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Should Americans be virtually strip searched and have their genitals touched at airports or anywhere the federal government deems it necessary to do so?

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Does the Islamic world hate us for our virtue and freedoms?

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Is the nature of things such that some people have to become poorer for others to become richer?

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Eighty percent of the people in this country say we're headed the wrong way. I say we're headed to go off a cliff that gets higher every day. Five of the six candidates with a shot at the presidency in November want to adjust the speed at which we are headed for the cliff. One wants us to change direction entirely.